[103810] in Cypherpunks
RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Sun Oct 4 16:38:31 1998
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 15:28:54 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
> Subject: RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:14:16 -0700
> > Microsoft got to where it is because of a lack of regulation
>
> Microsoft is not a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination.
They own 90% of the desktops in this country, that's a monopoly or a company
a hair-breadth's away.
> > The railroad industry in the mid-1800's.
>
> Railroads were highly competitive in the East. The railroad monopolies
> in the West were created by exclusive government land grants.
Not true until after the 1890's. Prior to that the railroads in the US were
owned by a total of like 5 people.
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